How to set up data sources for existing projects

In addition to creating project around an external data source, it is also possible to add external information to data that is already available in an existing BadgeMaker Identity project.

If you want to configure your existing BadgeMaker Identity project to use data sources, go to the Project Settings panel, and choose Data Sources under the BadgeMaker Connect tab. The approach for configuring the data sources is very similar to the process of creating a project from scratch, please refer to the “Setting up BadgeMaker Connect“chapter for a detailed explanation.

The main difference compared to creating a new BadgeMaker Connect project is that the local project data will always be your primary source of information. This means that any external data source will have to include a column that matches one of the columns in your local project data.

Attention: The software will only join tables when a corresponding record is found in both the local and the external data, which means that if you have a local project with 10 records, and an external project with 20 records, only the 10 records that match the local project will be displayed in the data grid. The software will automatically complement the data in case a new record is added that has a correspondence with one of the records in the external data source.